Quotes About Adaptation

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected.

Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.

To me that is what the Odyssey is all about, it's about being in the world and unexpected challenges and dangers are thrown at you.

I have seen 'Sanju,' and it is a well-made commercial film. However, it was left unexplored. I would have directed it with a different approach.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

You're put into a box where you're either an offensive, defensive coach or a player development guy. Fair or unfair. You have to be whatever your team needs you to be.

When we started in the late 70s, I don't think it's unfair to say Glasgow was on its knees. It was the end of the industrial age and it really was looking to find itself. It had to reinvent itself. And Simple Minds have had to constantly reinvent themselves. So has Glasgow.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

I didn't even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

I had become a bit spoiled or complacent at Sporting and I needed a kick up the backside, which is what Everton gave me. It was quite tough going to an unfamiliar place where I didn't know anyone at first.

I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I'm launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.

It's sad to see such institutions as 'All My Children' and some of the others, like 'Guiding Light,' which have been on the air for, like, 40 or 50 years. It's almost unfathomable to see that they actually aren't going to be on the air anymore. It's really sad.